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Proetidae
Proetidae is a family of proetid trilobites. The first species appeared in the Upper Ordovician, and the last genera survived until the Middle Permian. However, if the closely related family Phillipsiidae is actually a subfamily of Proetidae, then the proetids of Proetidae survive until the end of the Permian, where the last perish during the Permian–Triassic extinction event. Genera Proetidae ostensibly contains these following genera, though many may be placed in Phillipsiidae if the latter is, indeed, a distinct family. *'' Aayemenaytcheia'' *'' Aceroproetus'' *'' Alaskalethe'' *'' Altajaspis'' *'' Anambon'' *'' Anglibole'' *'' Angustibole'' *'' Anujaspis'' *'' Appendicysta'' *'' Aprathia'' *'' Archaeocoryphe'' *'' Ascetopeltis'' *'' Astroproetus'' (syn=''Xiushuiproetus'', ''Zhejiangoproetus'') *'' Australokaskia'' *'' Bailielloides'' *'' Bapingaspis'' *'' Basidechenella'' *'' Beleckella'' *'' Belgibole'' *'' Benesovella'' *'' Bitumulina'' *'' Blodgettia'' *'' Bohemiproetu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proetida
Proetida is an order of trilobite that lived from the Ordovician to the Permian. It was the last order of trilobite to go extinct, finally dying out in the Permian-Triassic extinction event. Description These typically small trilobites resemble those of the order Ptychopariida, from which the new order Proetida was separated in 1975 by Fortey and Owens. Like the order Phacopida, the proetids have exoskeletons that sometime have pits or small tubercles, especially on the glabella (middle portion of the head). Because of their resemblance to the Ptychopariida in some features, the proetids are included in the subclass Librostoma. Unlike the trilobites of the phacopid suborder Phacopina, whose eyes are schizochroal, the proetids have the more common holochroal eyes. These eyes are characterized by close packing of biconvex lenses beneath a single corneal layer that covers all of the lenses. Each lens is generally hexagonal in outline and in direct contact with the others. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillipsiidae
Phillipsiidae is a family of proetid trilobites, the various genera of which comprise some of the last of the trilobites, with a range that extended from the Kinderhookian epoch of the Lower Mississippian, to the end of Changhsingian age at Permian-Triassic extinction event in the latest Permian period. Phillipsiidae is sometimes defined as a subfamily, "Phillipsiinae," and usually placed within the family Proetidae. Jell & Adrain (2003) went so far as to lump Phillipsiidae into the family Proetidae, however other workers since like Lerosey-Aubril and Feist (2005) have continued to recognize Phillipsiidae as a distinct and separate family within Proetida. Subfamilies The following genera are included, divided among six subfamilies: *'' Phillipsia'' (type genus) *'' Breviphillipsia'' *'' Comptonaspis'' *'' Griffithidella'' *'' Hesslerides'' *'' Kollarcephalus'' *'' Nunnaspis'' *'' Phillibole'' *'' Piltonia'' Subfamily Archegoninae *'' Archegonus'' *'' Hildaphillipsia'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aayemenaytcheia
''Aayemenaytcheia paragranulata'' is a Middle Devonian proetid trilobite. Etymology The genus name is the vocalisation of the acronym AMNH of the American Museum of Natural History and the suffix -ia (Aay-Em-En-Aytche-ia), as gratitude for funding Lieberman's research. The species epithet ''paragranulata'' refers to the fact that the species was first regarded as closely related to '' Dechenella granulata''. Distribution ''A. paragranulata'' has been collected from the Devonian of Canada (Emsian and Eifelian, Blue Fjord Formation, Bathurst Island, Nunavut). Taxonomy ''Aayemenaytcheia paragranulata'' was originally described as a species belonging to the genus ''Dechenella''. Recent cladistic analysis however makes it likely the species is in fact the earliest branch of a clade that further includes ''Lacunoporaspis'', ''Dechenella,'' ''Schizoproetus'' and ''Schizoproetoides''. So in order to retain the monophyly In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Permian
The Permian ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.9 Mya. It is the last period of the Paleozoic Era; the following Triassic Period belongs to the Mesozoic Era. The concept of the Permian was introduced in 1841 by geologist Sir Roderick Murchison, who named it after the region of Perm in Russia. The Permian witnessed the diversification of the two groups of amniotes, the synapsids and the sauropsids ( reptiles). The world at the time was dominated by the supercontinent Pangaea, which had formed due to the collision of Euramerica and Gondwana during the Carboniferous. Pangaea was surrounded by the superocean Panthalassa. The Carboniferous rainforest collapse left behind vast regions of desert within the continental interior. Amniotes, which could better cope with these drier conditions, rose to dominance in place of their am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John William Salter
John William Salter (15 December 1820 – 2 December 1869) was an England, English natural history, naturalist, geologist, and palaeontologist. Salter was apprenticed in 1835 to James De Carle Sowerby, and was engaged in drawing and engraving the plates for Sowerby's ''Mineral Conchology'', the ''Supplement to Sowerby's English Botany'', and other natural history works. In 1842, he was employed for a short time by Adam Sedgwick in arranging the fossils in the Woodwardian Museum at Cambridge, and he accompanied the professor on several geological expeditions (1842–1845) into Wales. Salter was born in Pratt Place, Camden Town, the son of John Salter (1779–1837), a banking clerk, and his wife, Mary Ann. His birth was registered at Dr. William's Library near Cripplegate, London. In 1846, Salter married Sally, daughter of James De Carle Sowerby, and eventually fathered seven children with her. Also in 1846, Salter was appointed on the staff of the British Geological Survey, Geol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
